Sabhim Osou, from Janjala village, administratively affiliated with Nahiyah Rajou in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was arrested on December 8, 2022, by the Political Security forces of the Syrian National Army (SNA) from his place of work in an agricultural pharmacy in Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate. He was taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights notes that Sabhim’s phone was confiscated and he was not allowed to contact his family. We have concerns that he may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet another case of enforced disappearance, with 85% of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of both material and moral reparations for the victims and their families, and call on all parties to put an end to all arbitrary detentions whose only purpose is to spread mass fear and extort people. We also call for revealing the fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by all armed opposition factions/SNA.
